Robots
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Japanese Temple Features Mindar, the Android Priest
On February 23, 2019, the Kodaiji temple in Kyoto, Japan unveiled Mindar, the Android Kannon. The robot, its head and…
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A Particle Robotics System With Many Tiny Robots Working Together
The above video from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology highlights a “particle robotics system,” which consists of many smaller robots…
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Japan’s Lovot Companion Robot Hopes to Change the World
In 1984, The Terminator promised me a robot apocalypse circa 2029. And yet, we haven’t quite reached our inevitable obliteration…
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ESA Astronaut Introduces Cimon, the Floating Spherical Robot Aboard the ISS
“What are your commands?” asks the spherical robot as it floats through space. Inch by little inch, we’re getting closer…
Virtual News Anchors Hit Airwaves In China
China’s Xinhua News Agency, alongside the Chinese search engine Sogou.com, have revealed what they call the “world’s first artificial intelligence…
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Boston Dynamics Shows Off “Parkour Atlas” Robot
There was a time when you may have looked at Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot and thought, hey, I could outrun…
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Japan’s Space Agency Successfully Lands Rovers On Asteroid
I don’t know if anyone noticed, but this website erupted in a nightmare the other day. Stranger Dimensions went down…
Robot Dinosaurs Manage Front Desk At Japanese Hotel
There’s a hotel in Japan staffed by robots. But not just any kind of robots. As you walk up to…
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Meet Siren, The Digital Human Of Your (Uncanny) Dreams
During last week’s Game Developers Conference in San Fransisco, Epic Games revealed one of their latest projects: Siren, a “digital…
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Video: MIT’s Fish Robot Goes for a Swim
If there’s one thing I really think the world could use more of right now, it’s robot fish. Thankfully, MIT’s…